Mon.Jun 03, 2013

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100 AngelList Startups To Watch In 2013: How Many Are New To You?

ReadWriteStart

AngelList. It’s the place for startups to connect with funding and talent. Just this month, the site has helped raise $12 million in venture funding for a wide collection of startups. It may be the one site that best represents all players in the tech startup universe – from glamorous poster-child to hopeless wanna-be. But AngelList is huge. For every top-notch team on the site, you’re guaranteed to find dozens of others that will eventually give up and move on.

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

Steve Blank

'In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. —-. Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company.

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How to be Perceived as an Entrepreneur Role Model

Startup Professionals Musings

'In the beginning all businesses are just people playing out an idea. It’s never the other way around – there is no idea so big that it doesn’t need people to make it succeed. Investors know this, hence the saying “Bet on the jockey (founder), not the horse (idea).” A great jockey is a great role model. Like it or not, everyone looks to the entrepreneur as the jockey role model in a new business.

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More Global Innovation

deal architect

'We hear so much about Silicon Valley and Bangalore and Shanghai that it is refreshing to hear about innovations in other parts of the world. Mali: The Vocal Web The Rudiben mobile app Czech Technology Prowess The impressive German infrastructure.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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Who’s Doing the Learning?

Steve Blank

'In a startup instead of paying consultants to tell you what they learned you want to pay them to teach you how to learn. —-. Roominate , one of my favorite Lean LaunchPad teams came out to the ranch last week for a strategy session. Alice and Bettina had taken an idea they had tested in the class – building toys for young girls to have fun with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, and started a company.

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[Singapore][Infographic] Online Passwords – A Digital Achilles Heel

YoungUpstarts

'Last week we showed from a recent study by computer security software company McAfee that the average Singaporean owns digital assets valued at around $57,500. That’s certainly a lot of money, but the troubling thing is that while their digitally asset-rich, attitudes towards online security can be lax to the point of naive – only 41% of us are truly concerned about lost or stolen devices, and 48% store on devices digital assets that are impossible to recreate, re-download or repurc

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The Era of Real Time Marketing Has Arrived (Guest Post)

VC Cafe

'At Cannes Lions, no one will discuss the most significant disruption to hit the advertising industry since the internet- the transition to programmatic, real time bidding (RTB), except for maybe a few data geeks. Carl Fremont, Chief Digital Officer at MEC (WPP Group’s media buying subsidiary) is one of those Geeks and shared his perspective about RTB, “easily, the most important trend in the. [[ This is a content summary only.

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[US][Infographic] Preparing For Hurricane Season

YoungUpstarts

'June is the start of hurricane season – especially for those in the Northeast – and according to meteorologists, 2013 looks to be far worse than 2012. The Weather Channel alone is predicting 16 named storms, 9 of which are expected to become hurricanes, including 5 major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). These scary numbers can only mean one thing for business owners who operate in hurricane-prone areas – it’s time to batten down the hatches.

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We’re hiring an analyst!

Version One Ventures

'It has been almost a year since the initial launch of Version One Ventures and the first 12 months have been very busy with about a dozen Seed and Series A investments. So it is time to get some help to manage the fund and I am excited to announce that Version One is hiring an analyst. The analyst position is a two- to three-year role where you will learn about what the venture capital business is all about and get the chance to work with some interesting startups.

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Sorry, Brands…Your Digital Agencies are Lying to You

VC Cafe

'Brands spend a fortune on marketing- more than 9% (b2c) and 7% (b2b) of total revenue. Within marketing budgets, the fastest growing portion (+40%) is social media. Unfortunately, a growing body of evidence suggests that garnering LIKES on a Facebook page does nothing to foster community or increase engagement. Your digital agency has been lying to you.

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Five lessons a waiter can teach you about starting a business

Up and Running

'The restaurant industry is a world of it’s own where “two-tops,” “ramekins,” “food runners,” and “20-minute splits” are common terms. Having spent ten years in the service industry, first in high school, and later putting myself through college, I have a strong respect for restaurant servers (waiters). There are some valuable lessons I learned in this setting that could greatly benefit you as you build your business.

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Put Every Ounce Of Your Mind And Your Soul Into Your Book

Mike Michalowicz

'I have networked with hundreds of business authors over the years, and have noticed there are two factions. One group (which I consider myself in) believes in sharing every ounce of what they know in their books. The other group only shares a portion of their knowledge in their books. The latter group shares only a teaser worth of knowledge to encourage readers to read more of the author’s other books, or to engage their services.

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Going off grid for three weeks–in India

The Equity Kicker

'I’ve now been blogging for six and a half years, posting just about every day that I’ve worked, only pausing for holidays and weekends. I don’t usually write to let you all know when I will be away and not blogging because I don’t want to tell the world that my house will be empty (as was the case last week). This time it’s different because I’m not leaving behind an empty house, because this will be the longest break since I started blogging, and because I will most likely be totally off grid

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How to live comfortably in NYC on a $30k per year salary

Hippoland

'image credit: Grufnik. Lately, there’ve been a lot of news articles talking about people who have lived comfortably on seemingly small amounts of money such as this journalist’s article on NYC living and this coverage of Mr. Money Mustache’s retirement at age 30. A lot of people I know have been arguing that the people cited in these articles must live really uncomfortable lives, and I know a lot of entrepreneurs who have a hard time making ends meet even in a small suburb

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Why Interviews Have Been So Important To My Online Career

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

'Tweet When I was 19 years old I was provided with a dial-up internet account from the University of Queensland , where I had just enrolled in a business management degree. I remember using my dial up account at home, struggling with all the line drop outs, yet marvelling at what that little modem could do.

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WP Engine Expanding Into New Headquarters

SiliconHills

'Jason Cohen founded WPEngine because his A Smart Bear blog kept crashing whenever he wrote a popular post. He looked around for a reliable hosting site, but he couldn’t find one. So he thought why not create one? Voilà! WP Engine was born. Cohen, who has founded four startups and sold two, founded the specialized [.] The post WP Engine Expanding Into New Headquarters appeared first on SiliconHills.

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The Unreflecting Organization – Not Worth Having

Growthink Blog

'Every time I moderate a strategic planning retreat, I learn something. About myself. About the investment of life force necessary to build and sustain a successful organization in the modern business day. About the importance of heartfelt and mutually supportive communication among and between an effective executive team. About how there is no more efficient use of business time than to step away from the day-to-day, to reset, and to talk about the big “whys “of an enterprise.

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How to live comfortably in NYC on a $30k per year salary

Hippoland

'image credit: Grufnik. Lately, there’ve been a lot of news articles talking about people who have lived comfortably on seemingly small amounts of money such as this journalist’s article on NYC living and this coverage of Mr. Money Mustache’s retirement at age 30. A lot of people I know have been arguing that the people cited in these articles must live really uncomfortable lives, and I know a lot of entrepreneurs who have a hard time making ends meet even in a small suburb

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PeerLearn Wins AngelHack in Austin

SiliconHills

'In a post on Startup Digest, Damon Clinkscales, organizer of AngelHack Austin, posted that PeerLearn, a peer-to-peer learning platform accessible via the Web or a mobile phone, as the winner of the weekend hacking competition. At the first AngelHack held at Mass Relevance’s headquarters in downtown Austin, teams and individuals started working on projects at [.

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7 Ways to Attract Lots of High Quality Links in the Age of Authority

Duct Tape Marketing

'Links back to your site from other sites give Google a potentially important signal – “Hey, I’m a human being and I think this is good stuff.” – that’s something Google can’t do with a spider and even better if the site in question is already known to Google as a trusted source. photo credit: dolescum via photopin cc. Links have always been important, but in the past it was just about getting lots of them.

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Dell Launches Program to Help Female Entrepreneurs Succeed

SiliconHills

'Dell has launched a program to help women entrepreneurs succeed. At an annual event called the Dell Women’s Entrepreneur Network, which takes place this year in Istanbul, Dell announced plans to create a Website and community called Pay It Forward to help foster female entrepreneurship worldwide. It was joined in the effort by United Nations [.

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The most overlooked leadership skill #blindpost

Jeff Hilimire

'HBR has a May article titled, The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill , and I thought that would make a great blindpost. I thought long and hard about this one. It’s hard to find a leadership skill that people overlook. Confidence, competence, the ability to delegate , the ability to get the best of their people…these skills are constantly written about.

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What Is Your Core Competency?

Business Plan Blog

'Too many entrepreneurs and startups get caught up trying to be everything for everyone. You can always add features or sub-products down the road, but don’t lost sight of your mission and your core competencies. Focus on one problem that your target customers have and solve it. Get Focused. Once you start throwing in every decent idea that can be added to your product and service offering, you will find yourself with a disjointed solution that only partially solves your customers problems.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: May 20th – June 2nd

Scott Edward Walker

'I’m using Twitter as a form of micro-blogging to share interesting blog posts, articles and podcasts relating to entrepreneurship and startups, M&A and legal issues. Below are my five most popular tweets (via bit.ly ) for the past two weeks and a couple of blog-related tweets. If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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I think I’ll start believing fortune cookies now

Jeff Hilimire

'I mean, come on.

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What are top five things to remember when starting a company?

Scalable Startup

'Answer by Tom Nora: I'll make it simple… 3 Questions to Ask Yourself. (If You’re Trying to Convince The World That You Have a Hot Startup). 1. What are people doing now because your product doesn’t exist, what is the pain you will solve? 2. What is it that you know about your specific niche that other companies do not? 3. How and when does this make revenue and profits?

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10 Steps To Quality Website Content

YoungUpstarts

'by Cassie Crudo, operations manager of HubRunner. A simple way to think about your business’s website content is to break it into two categories: core content and fresh content. Core content is the main, critical information about your business, including details about your products and services, your team and your values. Fresh content serves a few different purposes — but, in short, think about fresh content as bits of valuable knowledge you’re sharing with website visitors.

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My Plan to Master Video Conferencing

Feld Thoughts

'I’ve decided not to travel for the rest of 2013. There are a lot of inputs into this decision, including the fact that I’ve been travelling 50% – 75% of the time for the last 20 years and I’m just tired of it. I also have realized that my endless travel introduces a lot of friction into my world that I believe is both unnecessary, is shortening my life, and starting to have a material impact on my creativity.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter – June 2013 Edition

VC Cafe

'As every month, VC Cafe is re-posting the “Invest in Israel” Newsletter, published by the investment promotion center of Israel’s Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, which offers many helpful tools for prospecting investors. For the Invest in Israel archive, click here. Lots of international [.]. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!